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“STRUBBY, a parish in the Wold division of Calceworth hundred, parts of Lindsey, county Lincoln, 4 miles N. of Alford, its post town, and the like distance from Claythorpe railway station. The parish includes the hamlet of Woodthorpe. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln, value £150, in the patronage of the dean and chapter. The church, dedicated to St. Oswald, was rebuilt, with the exception of the chancel, in 1857. It contains tombs of the Ballot family. The register dates from 1547. The parochial charities produce about £3 per annum. The Wesleyans have a chapel. Strubby is included in the manor of Bilsby."
"WOODTHORPE, a hamlet in the parish of Strubby, county Lincoln, 3 miles N. of Alford."
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from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
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- The parish was in the Withern sub-district of the Louth Registration District.
- Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
| Census Year | Piece No. |
|---|---|
| 1851 | H.O. 107 / 2111 |
| 1861 | R.G. 9 / 2379 |
| 1871 | R.G. 10 / 3399 |
| 1891 | R.G. 12 / 2606 |
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Oswald.
- The church was originally built in the 13th century.
- The church was rebuilt in 1857.
- The church chancel was built in 1874.
- The church is a Grade II listed building with British Heritage.
- The church seats about 161.
- There is a photograph of Saint Oswald's church on the Wendy PARKINSON Church Photos web site, taken by Paul FENWICK.
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1558.
- The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Calcewaith and Candleshoe Deanery to make your search easier.
- The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1845. For information and assistance in researching these chapels, see our non-conformist religions page.
- Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
- The parish was in the Withern sub-district of the Louth Registration District.
- Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.
Strubby is both a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, about 4 miles north of Alford and 10 miles south-east of Louth. The parish covers just over 2,000 acres and includes the hamlet of >Woodthorpe, nearly two miles south of Strubby village.
The village is in the Lincolnshire Wolds. If you are planning a visit:
- See our touring page for visitor services.
The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
"STRUBBY, a parish in the Wold division of Calceworth hundred, parts of Lindsey, county Lincoln, 4 miles N. of Alford, its post town, and the like distance from Claythorpe railway station. The parish includes the hamlet of Woodthorpe. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln, value £150, in the patronage of the dean and chapter. The church, dedicated to St. Oswald, was rebuilt, with the exception of the chancel, in 1857. It contains tombs of the Ballot family. The register dates from 1547. The parochial charities produce about £3 per annum. The Wesleyans have a chapel. Strubby is included in the manor of Bilsby."
"WOODTHORPE, a hamlet in the parish of Strubby, county Lincoln, 3 miles N. of Alford."
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Strubby to another place.
- Woodthorpe Hall, in the hamlet of Woodthorpe, is a large brick Tudor mansion, formerly the seat of the BALLETT (BULLETT) family.
- Woodthorpe Hall is a Grade II listed building with British Heritage.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF453824 (Lat/Lon: 53.318672, 0.179901), Strubby which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- This list was contributed by John READMAN of the UK.
- MEN OF STRUBBY WITH WOODTHORPE WHO SERVED IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 1918
| Surname | Given names | Rank | Unit or vessel | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BALDOCK | George | Sergeant | 9th Durham Light Infantry | |
| BURMAN | Arthur | Private | 2nd Lincs Regiment | |
| CRAGG | Stanley P. | Private | 8th Lincs Regiment | Died |
| FARROW | Reg. Asher | Private | 9th Durham Light Infantry | |
| HOLMES | Chas. Elsom | Private | 9th Lincs Regiment | |
| KELK | Julian | Lieut. | Bedfordshire Yeomanry | |
| LARDER | Ernest | Private | 3/4 Lincs. Regiment | Died |
| PARSONS | Robt. Wm. | Sapper | Royal Engineers | |
| SKINN | James | Private | 2nd Leicester Regiment | |
| THORNDIKE | Chas. Wm. | Private | West Yorks Regiment | |
| VEAR | David Henry | Private | 1st Lincs Regiment | |
| WATTAM | Charles | Private | Coldstream Guards | |
| WATTAM | George | Gunner | Royal Garrison Artillery | |
| WATTAM | James | Private | Sherwood Foresters | |
| WATTAM | Tom | Private | 2nd Lincs Regiment | Died |
- You can see these names repeated on the Roll of Honour.
- The name Strubby is from the Old Scandinavian Struthr+by, meaning "village of a man called Struthr". In the 1086 Domesday book, the village is given as Strobi.
A. D. Mills, "A Dictionary of English Place-Names," Oxford University Press, 1991.
- This place was an ancient parish in county Lincoln and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
- The parish was in the Wold division of the ancient Calceworth Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
- Kelly's 1913 Directory of Lincolnshire places the parish, perhaps erroneously, in the South Lindsey district of the county.
- The parish is small enough that it has a Parish Meeting in place of a formal Parish Council to decide civic and politial issues.
- For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.
- In 1728, Thomas WILLIAMSON left a yearly rent-charge of £2 and 12 shillings out of a farm at Cumberworth to be distributed to the poor in bread.
- The Common Lands were enclosed here in 1840.
- After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish was part of the Louth Poor Law Union.
- Bastardy cases would be heard in the Alford petty session hearings.
- A parochial school (Public Elementary School) was erected in 1878 to hold up to 40 children.
- See our Schools page for more information on researching school records.